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This is a story that I wrote for the Khmer Post USA, a biweekly newspaper published in Lowell that serves the Cambodian community in the city and throughout the east coast. The paper is primarily written in Khmai, however, it does include some articles published in English, such as this…
Read More »Dick’s post about Tony C. made me go to the vault for this short essay written in 1990. He was something to see. — PM Holy Picture If a 19-year-old from Swampscott and St. Mary’s High in Lynn could make the Red Sox, then a kid in Dracut could dream.…
Read More »“Highland Street Flowers” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 [painting, 1996) See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net This one is for all the backyard gardeners who have had a summer of cut flowers to brighten their homes in our “Flowering City.”
Read More »Sayon Soeun, City Councilor Vesna Nuon, me, Vong Ros and Vanna Howard after enjoying a delicious lunch purchased from one of the many food vendors at the Southeast Asian Water Festival.
Read More »There’s been some speculation about whether candidate lawn signs are up too early. Until about ten years ago that would have been correct. The city had an ordinance that prohibited the placement of campaign signs until a short time before the election – maybe 20 days? Since then, in a…
Read More »Forty-six years ago tonight I remember climbing into bed at whatever time 9 year olds went to bed back then, and twisting the timer nob on my pale green colored AM clock radio so that I could fall asleep to the melodious voices of Ken Coleman and Ned Martin calling…
Read More »Tooch Van, a Cambodian-American resident of Lowell, shared the following poem: I am Tooch Van, an educator, a storyteller, a community activist, a husband and a daddy (Papa) of two boys: Winston and Franklin Van. I came from Cambodia to study in America at Middlesex Community College, Trinity College, Princeton…
Read More »From the several hours I spent along the banks of the Merrimack this afternoon, I would judge the 2013 Southeast Asian Water Festival to be one of the best yet. More than 75 vendors set up booths and, judging from the canopy tents the lined the Vandenberg Esplanade, the vendors…
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peters shared the following essay with us: Where to begin: Well, first let us begin with a truism, it is hard being related to a famous person because you live your life in the open and sometimes you lack privacy and some of the other essentials. I…
Read More »“Atlantic Fishing Boat” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net This one is for everyone going to the coast for August vacation. Salisbury, Plum Island, Hampton Beach, Seabrook, Rye, Ogunquit, Rockport, Kennebunkport, York, Portsmouth, Kittery, Wells, Newburyport, Gloucester. . .
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